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Risky's Revenge is literally the sort of game DSiWare was made for; WayForward has been shopping it around for years, but publishers have uniformly refused to take a chance on it at retail. Digital distribution let them cut publishers from the picture and just sell the game directly. The developers frustration is ultimately to our benefit: This is a beautiful, substantial, classic-style game, and it's a great deal to boot. Risky's Revenge is quite possibly the first truly decisive argument in favor of owning a DSi, and I'd love to see it succeed -- not just because the game's cliffhanger ending deserves resolution, but also because other developers clearly need a little motivation to produce work of similar quality for the platform.

There are lessons to be learned from the elegant simplicity of the best retro titles, though the likes of Super Meat Boy and Pac-Man Championship DX prove you can make concessions to modern gamers without compromising your traditionalist ideals. WayForward would do well to realise that its name needn't be a misnomer – occasionally, Risky's Revenge proves you can look to the past with one eye on the present. If only its creators had done so more often.